# Brown Sugar guitar solo

> Billy Gibbons's guitar solo on Brown Sugar by ZZ Top (1971) starts at about 2:00. From the album ZZ Top's First Album. A blues classic from the 1970s.

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ZZ Top, 1971, from *ZZ Top's First Album*. Solo by *Billy Gibbons*.

Not the Stones song, but a slow Texas blues where a young Gibbons stretches out with Peter Green-inspired fluidity.

Brown Sugar by ZZ Top is #7 in our ranking of the best ZZ Top guitar solos. The solo is played by Billy Gibbons and the song was released in 1971.

## In our lists

- [The Best ZZ Top Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/zz-top-guitar-solos/) — #7

## Sources

### Who played the guitar solo on Brown Sugar?

Billy Gibbons played the solo on ZZ Top's Brown Sugar (1971).

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